Lifelines: Into a Season of New Learning

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Into a Season of New Learning

I have just left a season of learning from man as I finished my Spring semester of college. Only two years left. God has placed me into a job that gives me ample time to read. Also, being a bookstore, people expect the person behind the counter to be reading. This being said, tomorrow I begin a new season of learning. My office shelves have been crying out to me as they have accumillated new additions all year and have been waiting for me to have the time to read them all. Personally, I can hardly wait to daily feed myself with some God inspired words.

Summer also allows me to recharge my batteries and spend time devouring the word of God instead of taking small bites in between the class readings of college. It is time to feast and if anyone would like to join me at the table I challenge you to do so.

Books on my list this Month

Primal

by Mark Batterson

College Ministries 101

by Chuck Bomar

essential church?

by Thom S. Rainer & Sam S. Rainer III

UnChristian

by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyon

If you would like to read and discuss them with me then send me a message and we'll set up some times to get together and discuss them.

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Who I am...

Michael Lowe
Fairbanks, Alaska
Young Adult Pastor
Vectored Young Adult Ministries
http://www.vectored.org

First of all, I am married to the greatest work that God ever took the time to design, my wonderful wife Miranda. Almost a decade ago, Miranda and I were brought together in Ferrum, VA. God had brought her to me from Springfield, MO when her family moved to Virginia for work. After two years of friendship, God ignited the spark of love and six months later we were married. That was more than seven years ago and God has joined together with Miranda and I and given us a common vision to minister to young adults.

About 15 years ago when I was still a youth I saw that many of the friends and mentors I had throughout my early teen years left the church and did not come back. When I asked a few of them why they had left some told me that they no longer felt needed at the church. They were too old for youth and too young and inexperienced for church ministry. Many years later I read a study that said two-thirds of youth in the Protestant church leave the church at age 18 and only 34% of that number come back. That means that the Body of Christ looses 44% of youth at age 18. It was then that God laid young adult ministries on my heart.

Three years ago I was given the great honor of leading the young adult ministry at North Pole Assembly of God. Over those three years I was able to witness God's power to change lives as I watched young adults come closer to God and step into their holy potentials. In April 2013, I was given another opportunity when Aurora Assembly of God offered me the position of young adult pastor. I now have moved to Aurora and I am working with the senior pastor to accomplish more in the Fairbanks area than I ever thought could be possible. Vectored Young Adult Ministry brings Miranda and I ever closer to fulfilling God's vision for our lives and we are so thankful to have the opportunity to be a part of God's plan.